A Ball Player’s Career (1900) by Adrian Constantine Anson – The manager and captain of the Chicago Baseball Club reminisces about growing up in Marshalltown, Iowa in the 1850’s and 1860’s and his baseball experiences in the latter half of the 1800’s.

Sights around the World with the Base Ball Boys (1892) by Harry Clay Palmer – This book provides more detail of the 1889 round-the-world tour discussed by Adrian Anson, A. G. Spaulding, and Christy Mathews in the above accounts. It discusses “the most interesting sketches of the famous sites of the world as they were seen. . . ,” historic world geography through the eyes of 1880’s baseball.

Historical Statistics, Facts

Spalding’s Official Baseball Guide – 1913 by John B. Foster – A magazine with a collection of articles on the state of baseball that year and commentary on the National League, the American League, and the 1912 World Series. There are also earlier issues from 1889 and 1895.